?^ Human Physiology. 



In London the state of things is worse, for pure air and good 

 water can generally be found out of doors in the country. The 

 working classes in London are cramped for space; multitudes 

 are in a state of semi-starvation ; the water supply is intermit- 

 tent and bad over a large and crowded area. 



The lodging houses of the large towns a few years ago pre- 

 sented spectacles which should have made England blush in 

 the presence of Dahomey. They are now better regulated, 

 but it is not long since in forty-seven lodging houses in Bir- 

 mingham men,' women, and children slept indiscriminately 

 together since an officer of police reported 40 persons of both 

 sexes sleeping in the same room in Manchester, and more than 

 a hundred cases in which he found both sexes, married and 

 unmarried, lodging crowded together. In the London lodging 

 houses, where the charge was only a penny a night, " abandoned 

 girls, thieves, beggars, vagabonds, all slept pell-mell, in a small 

 room, with no convenience, and in the utmost looseness and 

 degradation. Beds were unknown. The owners of these dens 

 male and female men, women, boys and girls, all slept in a 

 mass on the floors, comprising, on an average, about thirty 

 beings, the most unfortunate, the most infamous, on the face of 

 the earth a mass of poverty, filth, vice, and crime an assem- 

 blage of all that is physically nauseous, and morally odious a 

 chaos of destitution, intemperance, ignorance, libidinism, and 

 depravity, which cannot be met with in any other part of the 

 globe." 



Such has been, and to a great extent such is the condition of 

 some millions of the poorer classes in England; and we talk 01 

 progress ! Where are the yeomanry of England? those whom 

 an English dramatist has described as 



" These gallant yeomen, 

 England's peculiar and appropriate sons, 

 Known in no other land. Each boasts his hearth 

 And field as free, as the best lord his barony, 

 Owing subjection to no human vassalage, 



